Hello there!
I was on a website that has a certain button that you can only click every 12 hours. That is the premise!
So to solve this problem and click this button as many times as I want to click it, I used a VPN to access the website. However, when I do that I get: “The owner of this website has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in from accessing this website.” I tried using different VPN’s connecting to different countries, using the specialty obfuscated servers on NordVPN. I still get the same message.
So heres the list of everything I did after that:
Changed Hardware ID like this: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\IDConfigDB\Hardware Profiles\0001
Changed Mac Address: Downloaded TMACv6
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Went into my settings and found the internet protocol v4:
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I then changed my preferred DNS server to 8.8.8.8 with the alternative being 8.8.4.4. I then went into the command prompt and did ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew to get myself a new IP address.
And that’s everything I did. The only thing on my computer that has never changed is the default gateway. I’m not sure how to solve this problem. Oh right and of course I’ve deleted all my cookies.
My questions are: How does this website storing the data that I’ve clicked this button? Shouldn’t it be seeing a new computer because of the new hardware ID/MAC address accessing the website from a new IP? I’m not sure how it still knows its me.
Any response to this is greatly appreciated. I am a bit of a novice on all of this information but I’m trying to learn.
Have you cleaned up the cache of your browser before?
You know… there are cookies saved on it
Literally nothing you have done will change how the website sees you.
Changing DNS does not give you a new external IP, it just tells your PC which “phone book” it should use to access the internet. This can be one of many DNS services but none of them do anything to mask or change your traffic, it’s just a public list of which IP address maps to the friendly human name we have given it (eg for me “google.com” is actually 142.250.187.228, but that would be a pain in the ass to type every time I want to search for something, so we use these DNS “phone books” instead).
Changing your local machines MAC is absolutely pointless, that’s only ever seen by clients on your local network. The website only ever sees the MAC address of your ISP’s provided router/modem at best which you cannot change easily.
Likewise Ipconfig release and renew just gives your local client a new IP address from your own router. Doesn’t change the one your ISP has assigned to you one bit.
You need to learn to differentiate between local network (everything inside YOUR house, up to your ISP’s provided router/modem) and the internet (from the router/modem outwards). That would be the best starting point for you right now.
The best analogy is to pretend you have set up your own postal system for inside your own house. You could sit there for hours giving each room its own postcode and street name, but no matter how long you spend tweaking this “internal” system the postman who comes to your door does not care one bit - as they only care about the address given to your house as a whole by the wider postal system (the internet).
A VPN is essentially you tricking the postman by sending your mail to a buddies house first, so the postman goes away thinking it’s from a completely different address.
As others have said you also need to be mindful of cookies and cached data the website has placed onto your browser. That’s like forwarding your mail to your buddies house as in the example above but using an envelope that the website gave you to use, which still has your address printed on the back - they still know it’s from you no matter where you send it from.
They are likely using browser fingerprinting to identify you. You can go to a site like amiunique.org to see if your browser fingerprint is unique and which identifying features you can change to make you appear different.
Cookies would be saved in the browser. Trying clearing the cache for the particular website.
You said VPNs didn’t work, how are you getting a new IP address, everything else you listed would not affect your external IP address.
Did you try using a different browser?
A lot of people have already posted what you need to know. My bet is a combination of browser fingerprinting plus associating it with your external IP.
Browsers have a unique finger print
If you’re using windows 11, you can try using the sandbox machine plus a VPN.
You delete your cookies? Switch browsers?
Also, it might be better if you use a vm with tails Linux to browse the web. And even then, you could be tracked.
Try using LINUX, if you can ask you friendly neighbours for their wifi ( or find means to get access to their wifi
) you can spoof your mac address ( use a legitimate one) ) clear your temp files . Change your TZ data (time zone ) connect to their wifi ( external MAC ADDRESS tied to their network and the Central Office ) then connect to your VPN abroad . Use proper browser and clean it up ( clear cookies and cache, trr and media peer) . Use Ublock and VOILA.
This is not a theory ^^ … Talking from experience but… but … but … some ass hole sites have pixel tracking, and some have behaviour tracking …/… So using your monitor with maximized browser and speed you type etc will give out that its you. So don’t use maximized browser.
The time on your OS needs to be changed , very very crucial.
Lastly I run a script that has a list of websites that I put in a file and my script goes to those sites and then subdomains waits, closes and on and on… so it adds extra garbage queries to pass through. You going to that website, if they have mechanisms to track the sites you been on and the sites your going to visit after, well not they are getting garbage data.
Good luck.
Holy fucking shit just restart your router